KIDS on TV & 50th Anniversary
La Petite Mort Gallery & Guy Berube presents:
“I KNOW I DONT LOOK 50 BUT I AM” BDAY PARTY
& ‘FLESH GARDEN’ INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBIT
Where: La Petite Mort Gallery
When: Friday July 6, 2012 / 8pm to Midnite
Why: Cause Im still Alive
FREE BUBBLY. FREE PIZZA. FREE HUGS.
Featured Exhibit:
FLESH GARDEN Collaboration with YESSR
Santiago, Chile & Buenos Aires, Argentina
& La Petite Mort Gallery / Ottawa
July 6 – 29, 2012 / Vernissage Friday July 6 / 8 – Midnite
$5 COVER / Proceeds to Villa Marguerite Nursing Home, Ottawa.
Statement:
“Yeah, Im turning the big “Five-O”, and Im down with that, and Im inviting everyone to celebrate life, as it is; fragile, beautiful, exciting, and full of drama.
This is a shout-out to all my friends who did not make it this far, to all those who are still kickin’ it, and to those I have yet to meet.
Join us, get shit-faced, get laid, get help. xx ” – Guy
Co-curator Felipe Bracelis (Santiago, Chile) will be present on opening night, so let’s make him feel welcome.
Proudly sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM,
McAuslan Brewing Inc., Cheesy Luigi’s & OverKill Lounge
PLAYING LIVE: Toronto’s Kids on TV
http://www.kidsontv.biz/
LIVE ART: Toronto’s ALEKS BARTOSIK http://
ALSO PERFORMING: The One & Only THEO PELMUShttp://www.theopelmus.com/
This exhibition is an opportunity to cross meet South/North America, where geographical limits are exceeded by the visceral urge to create and meet. We expect our artists to chop limbs, scatter around organs, to take maximum advantage of multiple chromatic attributes of skin; here we can all be surgeons and butchers.
KIDS ON TV:
Kids On TV emerged from the drainage pipe of a Toronto bathhouse in the spring of 2003. The group consists of John Caffery, Minus Smile, Roxy and Wolf. Their music explores the worlds of house, experimental rock, no-rave, punk, and soul. Their multi-media performance is apocalyptically gay and transforms environments with projections of their film and video work. In 2007, they released their debut album “Mixing Business With Pleasure” on Chicks on Speed Records (internationally) and Blocks Recording Club (Canada). The band has toured Europe and have played with Gang of Four, CrystalCastles, Ladytron, Dat Politics, Angie Reed, Les Georges Leningrad, and Lesbians on Ecstasy. They have worked and recorded with Boy George, traded remixes with Man Parrish, and recently collaborated with Yo Majesty, Katie Stelmanis, and Diamond Rings.
THEO PELMUS:
Theo Pelmus is a performance artist who has received several awards, including an emerging artist grant and integrated arts grant from the Ontario Arts Council (2006; 2009), the Dennis Tourbin Fund for emerging artist in performance art (2007) and an emerging artist grant from the City of Ottawa (2009). He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows in Copenhagen and the Bucharest Biennial. Theo has a BFA and MFA from the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest and University of Ottawa. He is an active participant in the Ottawa arts community, most notably as a programming member of Available Light Screening Collective. He is represented by La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa.
ALEKS BARTOSIK:
I am a visual artist currently working from my studio in Toronto, Ontario. I work figuratively and most often large-scale, where I combine drawing elements with painting, performance and installation, and film/video. I explore the boundaries between the real and the imaginary and investigate one’s ability and willingness to imagine, pretend, dream and suspend disbelief. I am interested in our repressed fears and the sense of wonder engendered through curiosity and dream. I am motivated by people; the particularities, delicacies, sensitivities, beauties and obsessions held within relationships between lovers, siblings/twins, friends, strangers, or themselves. I like to observe the visible (and accessible) interactions between people and the situations they are placed in and re-create my own scenarios and my own environments and narrations. It is my challenge to invite the viewer to dream through my deliberate narration and my obsession with drawing in painting.
Merci,
Guy Berube, director
La Petite Mort Gallery